Manslaughter Park by Tirzah Price EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Tirzah Price
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“FANNY!”
Fanny Price’s paintbrush slipped at the sound of her own name, leaving a
streak of brown paint across the canvas.
“Dash it all!” she muttered, careful not to raise her voice. She cast a
furtive look over her shoulder anyway, as some habits were hard to break.
Mansfield Park, her home for the past nine years, was an estate of five square
miles with a spacious manor house, multiple stables and outbuildings, and a
large storehouse that housed the family business, Mansfield Emporium. One
would think that with so much space, it shouldn’t be difficult for Fanny to
carve out one small corner of said storehouse for a bit of peace and quiet.
One would be wrong.
“Fanny Price! If you’re in here, come out this very instant!”
Fanny hurriedly wiped her paintbrush and set to work feathering out the
brown streak she’d left on the canvas. If it dried, it would be impossible to
cover up or blend into her painting without having to start from scratch, and
Fanny was too proud of the work she’d done thus far to set herself back. Of
course, that meant ignoring Aunt Norris, who was sounding more and more
cross—and closer and closer—by the second.
“If you’re ignoring me, girl, then there is extra sewing as punishment!”
Fanny tried not to shudder—she had almost finished blending the line of
paint. For as patient as she could be making tiny brushstrokes in front of a
painting, sewing was not one of her strong suits, and Aunt Norris knew it.
She swished the paintbrush back and forth, carefully inspecting the pigment
of the paint and then stepping back to get a fuller look. There. Hardly visible
anymore.
A creak sounded behind her as someone approached, and she whirled
around, an excuse wrapped in an apology already flying to her lips. But the
person standing behind her wasn’t Aunt Norris at all.
“Edmund!” she exclaimed in a whisper.
“Fanny Price!” Aunt Norris shouted once more, exasperated.
Edmund lifted one finger to his lips, which were twisting in a delighted
grin. Fanny bit her lip to keep from asking him what he was on about as he
turned around and shouted, “She’s not here! Go bellow for her somewhere
else!”
“Why, I never!” Aunt Norris exclaimed, and then in a louder shout she
added, “Is that any way to speak to your aunt, Edmund Bertram?”
“Hardly my aunt,” Edmund said in a whisper to Fanny. But he shouted
back, “We’re trying to work here and you keep disturbing our progress!”
There was some muttering and stomping and then the sound of retreating
footsteps. Fanny’s shoulders sagged in relief. “You didn’t have to do that,”
she said, but she could hardly hide her smile.
“Oh, I know. But I wanted to. Vexing her is so much fun.”
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